A dramatic tour from the tomb of Italy's greatest poet and music among the mosaics Two years ago Ermanno Montanari and Marco Martinelli, the visionary partners who have powered Ravenna's rev…
Director of the moment Ivo van Hove explores an age-old conundrum Ivo van Hove's reputation precedes his work as a rumble of thunder goes before a storm.
A giddy Sheridan Smith is back centre-stage but watch out for newcomer Jac Yarrow, too Cheeky and broad and (for the most part) as entertaining as seems humanly possible, this embryonic entr…
Four-hander about a young woman falling in love transfers from the Bush Theatre The intense relationship between a single parent and a single child is ramped up to its highest level when it…
Melly Still brings her singular theatricality to bestselling novel on stage Better than the 2001 film but likely to disappoint devotees of the book, Captain Corelli's Mandolin onstage works…
James McArdle's lead, strong ensemble and David Hare's Ibsen adaptation compel Like Hamlet and both parts of Goethe's Faust, with which it shares the highest peak of poetic drama, Ibsen's Pe…
The Regent's Park revival is just as spectacular indoors Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1970Â musical had a heavenly resurrection at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre three years ago, wit…
Bright new two-hander about an internet troll is intelligent, provocative and funny Few theatres have done as much to promote new young talent as the Royal Court; few theatres have done as m…
2015 musical gets a belated, overly busy West End transfer Time hasn't necessarily been kind to this slow-aborning West End transfer of a show first seen (and lauded) in its 2015 debut in L…
The starry director-writer team behind 'Harry Potter' onstage return to their frequent home at the Royal Court An apocalyptic title proves somewhat of a red herring for a slight if intriguin…
Navigating the script is a bit like going in a car with a driver who's just passed their test This lovingly lo-tech visit to galaxies far far away is a curious proposition, which, while neit…
Jeremy Herrin's production of modern classic feels leaden Michael Frayn's Noises Off is a modern classic, a backstage sex farce that pokes affectionate fun at a profession he loves. And now …
The onetime director of 'The Railway Children' sets out his vision for bringing Shakespeare afresh to the country's 'cultural pageant' How we deliver culture in the modern day is complex. Th…
New play about an extramarital affair is short, but emotionally truthful The best kind of two-hander is the play about couples. And the most dramatic way of saying something about relationsh…
Tuyen Do's playwriting debut marks first-ever British Vietnamese play seen in the UK There's a moment in Summer Rolls, at the Nguyen family dinner table, when a veil is briefly pulled back …
Magnificent revival of David Greig's 1990s visionary classic is both tough and tender In the middle of the current decade, there was a mild vogue for reviving a handful of the great plays o…
The rhythm is gonna get you " even if the drama doesn't This well-meaning biographical jukebox musical about icons Gloria and Emilio Estefan, which did two years on Broadway and a US tour, i…
Striking stage version of Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm's 2012 film For a while, child abuse has been banished from our stages. After all, there is a limit, surely, to how much pain …
The Irish star is sublimely funny - and moving, too - in Noël Coward classic "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" can be heard pulsating through the Old Vic auditorium as the curtain rises…
Are the family of a flamed-out prodigy at (double) fault? "How much does she owe us?" So ponder the now estranged parents of a former tennis pro, as they calculate the very literal investmen…
Ivo van Hove reinvents Visconti's fable about a 1930s German House of Atreus Is the terrifying past of Germany in 1933 also our future? Having had nightmares about the brilliant dystopian TV…
Stagecraft skill and company playing meld seamlessly in Petersburg production Lev Dodin has been artistic director of the famed Maly Drama Theatre for some three and a half decades now, ove…
The most controversial play of the year is shaping up to be the worst John Malkovich is back in town - and he's starring in the most controversial play of the year. Trouble is, it might well…
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron align in starry London debut for six-time Tony-winner A Broadway show as melodically haunting and sophisticated as it is niche, The Light in the Piazza has t…
A poetic journey through time and space in Dublin is beautifully written Irish playwright Dylan Coburn Gray's new play won the Verity Bargate Award in 2017, and his reward is a fine product…